Garment-hanger.



No. 699,080. Patented Apr. 29, I902.

. m. J. 000K.

GARMENT HANGER.

(Application filed May 16, 1901 (No Model.)

UQTTORNEY.

THE "cams PETERS co, Pnofuumm. WASHINGTON D. c

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MANSFIELD J. COOK, OF SYRACUSE, NE\V YORK.

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,080, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed May 16, 1901. Serial No. 60,499. (No model.)

To all 1071,0711, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MANSFIELD J. 000K, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county of'Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa full, clear, and exact description. 7 I

This invention relates to the. class of garment hangers or supporters which are designed to be suspended on a Wall of a wardrobe or other part of. an apartment; and the invention consists in an improved construction and combinationof the component parts of the garment-hanLen/which is very conveniently manipulated and capable of supporting the garment in a most secure and perfoot manner to maintain the garment in perfect shape while applied'to said hanger.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view 'of my improved garmenthanger. Fig. 2 is a rear face view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section through the center of the garment-hanger. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detached perspective view of the supplemental garment-supporter. Fig. 5 is a side view of the means for supporting a plurality of garment-hangers one. in front of the other, and Fig. 6 is a side view of said supporting means, shown partly in section. 7

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a and a are the main supporting-arms of the garment-hanger. Said arms are arranged one directly in front of the other and flexibly united at a point intermediate their ends by means of a hinge b,.as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, v V a D D represent the clamping-plates, between which the ends of pants-legs are inserted to support the pants in suspended position, as represented at P P in Fig. 5'of the drawings. These clamping-plates are connected to the lower ends 'of the main supporting-arms a a, preferably by means of a hinged coupling 0 on one of said plates and a rigid attachment 0 on the other of said plates, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5 of the drawings. By hinging one of these clamping-plates, as aforesaid, it is allowed to conthe drawings.

mediate its ends around the ends of the hinge-pint, as shown at 11 and extending thence down at the edges of the lower portions of the main supporting-armed a to the outer sides of the clamping plates D D. The ends of said wire are fastened to the rigidly-attached clamping-plate D, as shown at c. The portion of the wire which extends to the plate D is bent at right angles toform the coupling -pin 0 which passes through eyes 0 on the plate D and through a sleeve formed on the end of the arm 0., and thus forms the hinged connection of the plate D to the arm or. provided with a slot a by which it is hung on a hook, nail, or screw fastened to the wall of the wardrobe or closet.

To render my improved garment-hanger complete for placing thereon in proper shape a coat and hat as well as pants, I utilize the "forwardly-leaning front arm a by forming the upperend thereof with a forwardly-projecting hook d, to which I connect a supplemental garment-supporter, which is formed separate from the pants-hanging devices and mounted removably on the hook d. Said supplemental garment-supporter is thus rendered convenient for storing or packing it with the pants-hanger. This supplemental supporter is formed in one piece of wire, one end portion of which is bent into the shape of a lateral offset 6, by which it is removably seated on the hook d, as shown in Fig. 7 of At a suitable distance above this offset said wire terminates in the shape of a-horizontal ring g, which serves to support a hat upon it. Some distance belowthe offset ethe portion of the wire thus suspended from the hook at is bent into the shape of prolonged loops ff, extending in opposite di rections from the vertical portion of the wire, as shown in Fig. 1 of the'drawings. Said loops are shaped to enter into the sleeves of the coat to be hung thereon.

In order to allow a plurality of said garment-hangers to be suspended one in front The upper end of this arm is To automatically compress the V of the other, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, I connect to the ends of the pin of the hinge b the end portions of a wire which extends convergently upward between the arms a a and is bent into the shape of a hook h, by which the garment-hanger is hung on a horizontal rod R, fastened at one end to the wall of the closet or wardrobe, as shown at R in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings. To allow said rod to be adjusted in length to accommodate it to different depths or widths of the closet or wardrobe, I form said rod of two end sections, one of which is tubular and receives in it the other end section, which is adapted to slide telescopically therein, as more clearly shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. The combination with the main supporting-arms coupled flexibly together intermediate their ends, a clamping-plate fixed to the lower end of one of said arms, and a cooperating clamping-plate pivotally connected to the other of said arms, of a spring-wire coiled around the coupling-pin of the supportingarms and fastened at its ends to the fixed clamping-plate, and formed with a transverse portion constituting the pivot-pin of the other clamping-plate as set forth and shown.

2. The combination of the forwardly-leaning main supporting-arm provided on its upper end with a hook, and a supplemental hanger formed in one piece of wire having one end portion bent into a lateral offset and mounted thereby on the aforesaid hook and removable therefrom, the upper extremity of said portion of the Wire bent into the shape of a horizontal ring, the lower end portion of said wire'bent into the shape of prolonged loops extending in opposite directions from the vertical portion of the wire substantially as described and shown.

MANSFIELD J. COOK.

\Vitnesses:

J. J. LAAss, WM. HAXVLEY. 

